The language of feeling and the feeling of anxiety: contributions of the behaviorisms toward understanding the function-altering effects of language.

From: The Psychological Record | Date: September 22, 1996| Author: Eifert, George H.; Forsyth, John P. | Copyright information

This article presents a review and critical analysis of the verbal basis of emotional phenomena from two behavioral perspectives: Paradigmatic Behaviorism (PB) and Radical Behaviorism (RB). PB has explained the acquisition of verbal-emotive functions from a respondent semantic conditioning perspective, whereas RB describes similar emotive functions from an operant perspective. Both approaches, however, have remained largely adversarial. The basis for this adversarial relationship stems largel...

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